Recognition

All professional programs have national accreditation: ABET (engineering and computer
science), AACSB (business), NAAB (architecture) and CCNE (nursing).

MSU receives over US$103 million per year in grants to conduct research and creative
activities. Undergraduate students in many fields work directly with top researchers
and professors, giving them valuable hands-on experience.

MSU ranks fourteenth in the country for universities with the most students who have
received the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, given for excellence in math and science. MSU students have earned 46 Goldwater
awards, more than students from Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Yale and other top schools.

Since 2001, College of Engineering graduates have consistently passed the Fundamentals
of Engineering (FE) exam at a rate of more than 10 percentage points higher than the
average national pass rate. The FE is a step toward becoming a licensed professional
engineer.

MSU's Computer Science program is fully accredited--only 10% of the Computer Science programs in the country have
this distinction. This means that students are in higher demand and receive better
salaries.